Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.094519
Keywords
calcium compounds; chemical potential; copper compounds; doping; HF calculations; high-temperature superconductors; lanthanum compounds; nuclear quadrupole resonance; photoelectron spectra; strontium compounds; surface states
Funding
- School of Physics and Gordon Godfrey fund
- UNSW
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The role of Coulomb disorder, either of extrinsic origin or introduced by dopant ions in undoped and lightly doped cuprates, is studied. We demonstrate that charged surface defects in an insulator lead to a Gaussian broadening of the angle-resolved photoemisson spectroscopy (ARPES) lines. The effect is due to the long-range nature of the Coulomb interaction. A tiny surface concentration of defects about a fraction of one percent is sufficient to explain the line broadening observed in Sr(2)CuO(2)Cl(2), La(2)CuO(4), and Ca(2)CuO(2)Cl(2). Due to the Coulomb screening, the ARPES spectra evolve dramatically with doping, changing their shape from a broad Gaussian form to narrow Lorentzian ones. To understand the screening mechanism and the line-shape evolution in detail, we perform Hartree-Fock simulations with random positions of surface defects and dopant ions. To check validity of the model we calculate the nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) line shapes as a function of doping and reproduce the experimentally observed NQR spectra. Our study also indicates opening of a substantial Coulomb gap at the chemical potential. For a surface CuO(2) layer the value of the gap is on the order of 10 meV while in the bulk it is reduced to the value about a few meV.
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